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L. T. SHEPHERD.

DOOR.

Patented Jan. 3, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWVIS T. SHEPHERD, OF COLLEGE CORNER, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF THREE- FOURTHSTO RILEY E. MILLER, WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, HOWARD L. YOUNG, AND \VILLIAM H.SHEPHERD, ALL OF SAME PLACE.

DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,048, dated January3, 1888.

Application filed June 13, 1887. Serial No. 241,097. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS T. SHEPHERD, of College Corner, Butler county,Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Doors, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The present invention pertains to doors for houses, 850., and relatesparticularlyto the mode-of hanging such doors.

The improvements will be readily understood from the followingdescription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, inwhich- I Figure 1 is an elevation of a wall provided with a door whosehangings exemplify my improvements; Fig. 2, an enlarged horizontalsection of the same in the plane of the dotted line marked a; and Fig.3, an elevation in the same plane as Fig. 1, but upon'an enlarged scale,of portions of the door, frame, 850., at about the point indicated bythe dotted line a in Fig. 1, a portion being shown as broken out of thefinish-board of the casing in order to exhibit more clearlytheconstruction to the rear of it.

In the drawings, A indicates a wall provided with a door-opening; B, anordinary door hinged therein; C, the door-frame, constructedsubstantially as usual; D, a hingepiece forming an adjustable part ofthe doorframe to which the door is hinged, this hingepiece lying againstthe face of the appropriate doorpost of the door-frame and being coveredby the usual finish-board of the door-frame, the hinge-piece thus reallyfitting in a groove or slot formed between said door-post andfluish-board; E, strong screws, fitted, preferably, with handles, thesescrews engaging slots in the hingepiece, and also engaging the doorpostand finish-board of the door-frame, and serving as a means by which thehinge-piece is firmly clamped by the finish-board to the door-post, soas to form, normally, a rigid part thereof; and F, the slots, in thehinge-piece engaged by the .screws E, these slots being preferably openat that edge of the hingepiece farthest from the door.

Viewed in its general aspect, the door is hinged to the door-frame inthe usual manner and operates in the usual manner, the hingepieceserving to form the usual jamb or rabbet for the hinged edge of thedoor. The hingepiece is held rigidly in its proper position by thefinish-board-and the screws E, and these screws are preferably providedwith handles outside the finish-board of the do0rframe, whereby thescrews may be at any time tightened or slackened. The arrangement willbe fully understood from Fig. 2. By slackening the screws E the hingepiece D is free to be adjusted farther back into its slot or farther outof the slot; or it may be pulled entirely from the slot. The door andthe hinge-piece are united by the usual hinges.

.The door fits the openingas usual, and nothing unusual is apparentabout the arrange ment except the screws E. If the door shrinks andbecomes opened at the lock-jamb, the defeet can be at once remedied byloosening the screws E and by pushing the entire door toward thelock-jamb until the fit at thelock-jamb is proper, after which thescrews are tightened, leaving the door in proper fitting and properworking condition.

If the frame shrinks or the door swells, the door and hinge strip may bemoved away from the lock-jamb. Ifthe door settles so as to open on thethresholdstrip, the door may be raised and secured in its new and properposition. If the floor settles, the door may be lowered. A veryefficient and convenient means is thus provided for adapting the door toits opening under these changing conditions found so annoying in mostall climates and with most all kinds of wood-work. Convenient means alsobecome provided by which the door may be readily removed if it bedesired to substitute curtains or screen-doors in the summer-time. Incase of fire the doors may be quickly removed and saved from the generaldestruction. The arrangement causes no disfigurement of the wood-work.The handles upon the screws E, where handles are used, may be ofhandsomely plated metal, or of brass or other metal to correspond withthe other hardware of the door, and these handles may, if desired,

be surrounded against the finish board by a door hinged to saidhinge-piece, and screws washers 0r rosettes of as ornate a character asE, engaging the said finish-board and doorfancy may dictate. post andpassing through said transverse slots, I claim as my inventionandadapted to serve in clamping said hinge- 5 The combination,substantial]y as set forth, piece between said post and board.

of a wall provlded with a door-opening, a door- LEWIS T SHEPHERD- postthereat, a finish-board set at a distance therefrom, so as to leave agroove between said Witnesses:

post and board, a hinge-piece, D, fitting said NM. H. PIERSON, ro grooveand provided with transverse slots F, P. A. JACKSON.

